French seal off Mali's Timbuktu, rebels torch library

GAO, Mali (Reuters) - French and Malian troops on Monday sealed off Timbuktu, a UNESCO World Heritage site, after fleeing Islamist rebel fighters torched several buildings in the ancient Saharan trading town, including a priceless manuscript library....

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Militants attack oil pipeline in Algeria, two dead

ALGIERS (Reuters) - Suspected Islamist militants attacked an oil pipeline in northern Algeria on Monday, killing two guards and wounding seven other people, a security source told Reuters. The Djebahia region, some 70 km (45 miles) east of the capital,...

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Grief turns to anger after Brazil club fire; band in custody

SANTA MARIA, Brazil (Reuters) - Relatives of the 231 people who died in a Brazilian nightclub fire demanded answers on Monday as to how it could have killed so many people, while police questioned the club's owner and members of the band whose pyrotechnics...

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Violence flares in Egypt after emergency law imposed

CAIRO (Reuters) - A man was shot dead on Monday in a fifth day of violence in Egypt that has killed 50 people and prompted the Islamist president to declare a state of emergency in an attempt to end a wave of unrest sweeping the Arab world's biggest...

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Suicide bomber kills eight Yemeni troops: officials

SANAA (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed at least eight Yemeni soldiers on Monday after troops backed by tanks attacked an al Qaeda stronghold following the collapse of talks to free three Western hostages, local officials and residents said. Tackling...

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Bangladesh, India sign extradition and visa deals

DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh and India on Monday signed an extradition treaty and struck a deal to relax business visa restrictions between the neighboring countries. The extradition treaty could pave the way for Bangladesh to put on trial several crime...

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Dispute over military command holds up Congo peace deal

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - African leaders failed on Monday to sign a U.N.-mediated peace deal aimed at ending two decades of conflict in eastern Congo, said a senior Congolese diplomat, who pointed to concerns over who would command a new regional military...

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Jailings may have spurred Turkish commander to quit

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's number-two naval commander retired on Monday in what some took as proof of deepening frustration in the military high command over the jailing of hundreds of their colleagues. Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's administration...

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In flowery letter from sickbed, Venezuela's Chavez calls for regional unity

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's cancer-stricken president, made his presence felt at a regional summit on Monday with a flowery letter from his sickbed in Cuba that was laced with literary references and calls for Latin American unity....

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Iran sends monkey into space, showing missile progress

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran said on Monday it had launched a live monkey into space, seeking to show off missile delivery systems that are alarming the West which fears the technology could be used to deliver a nuclear warhead. The Defense Ministry announced...

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Coordinated Kabul suicide attack targets government building

KABUL (Reuters) - Suicide bombers and gunmen launched an eight-hour assault on the headquarters of the Kabul traffic police on Monday, Afghan officials said, in the second coordinated attack on a government building in less than a week. The Taliban...

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French troops take town in central Mali as rebels slip away

DIABALY, Mali (Reuters) - French and Malian armored columns rolled into the central Mali town of Diabaly on Monday after the al Qaeda-linked Islamist rebels who seized it a week ago melted into the bush to avoid air strikes. Diabaly, 350 km (220 miles)...

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Israel's Netanyahu seeks strong finish in election

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made an election-eve appeal on Monday to wavering supporters to "come home", showing concern over a forecast far-right surge that would keep him in power but weaken him politically. In...

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Merkel suffers setback months before federal vote

BERLIN (Reuters) - In an extremely tight German state election that seemed to produce few clearcut winners, there was no question who the biggest loser was - Angela Merkel. Her Christian Democrats (CDU), led by local star David McAllister, had convinced...

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NATO Patriot missiles arrive in Turkey to counter Syria risks

ISKENDERUN, Turkey (Reuters) - The first of six NATO Patriot missile batteries intended to protect Turkey from a potential Syrian attack arrived by ship from Germany on Monday, drawing a small but noisy protest from nationalist and leftist demonstrators....

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Eritrean troops lay siege to information ministry

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Eritrean soldiers with tanks laid siege to the information ministry on Monday and forced state media to call for political prisoners to be freed, a senior intelligence official said. The renegade soldiers had not gone as far...

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Ex-UN envoy suspects war crimes in Sudan border conflict

JUBA (Reuters) - Aerial bombardment and ground attacks by government forces in Sudan's restive south are targeting civilians as well as armed rebels and may amount to war crimes, a former senior United Nations official said. Mukesh Kapila was the U.N....

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Albanians protest after Serbia takes down memorial

PRESEVO, Serbia (Reuters) - Thousands of ethnic Albanians protested in Serbia on Monday against the removal of a memorial to fallen guerrilla fighters and dozens of Serb graves in neighboring Kosovo were damaged in apparent retaliation. The monument...

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France says review of nuclear cooperation with China "normal"

BEIJING (Reuters) - French Trade Minister Nicole Bricq said on Monday a decision by her country's new government to conduct a review of French-Chinese nuclear relations was a regular process and was "normal". At the end of December, Finance Minister...

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Algeria says 37 foreigners die in siege led by Canadian

ALGIERS (Reuters) - A total of 37 foreign workers died at an Algerian desert gas plant and seven are still missing after a hostage crisis coordinated by a Canadian, Algerian Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal said on Monday. Sellal also said that 29 Islamists...

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Pakistan Shi'ites to bury bomb victims after meeting PM

QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Pakistani Shi'ite Muslims began burying their dead in a mass grave Monday amid tears and pictures of the fallen, ending a three-day protest over one of the worst sectarian attacks in the country's history....

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Syria war envelops region in "staggering" crisis: aid agency

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria's civil war is unleashing a "staggering humanitarian crisis" on the Middle East as hundreds of thousands of refugees flee violence including gang rape, an international aid agency said on Monday. Opposition activists said an...

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Second French commando dies of wounds: Somali rebels

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A second French commando has died from wounds in Somalia after a failed attempt at the weekend to rescue a French agent held hostage by al Shabaab since 2009, the Somalian rebel group said on Monday. The al-Qaeda linked group also...

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Iraq frees prisoners in gesture to end Sunni protests

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The Iraqi government released more than 300 prisoners held under anti-terrorism laws on Monday as a goodwill gesture to Sunni Muslim demonstrators staging protests against Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. Three weeks of demonstrations,...

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African mediators press Sudans to end stand-off

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - The African Union sought on Monday to defuse hostilities between Sudan and South Sudan that brought them close to war last year and end a freeze on oil exports that threatens to wreck their economies. South Sudan seceded from...

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India army chief threatens Pakistan over Kashmir killings

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's army chief threatened to retaliate against Pakistan for the killing of two soldiers in fighting near the border of the disputed region of Kashmir, saying he had asked his commanders there to be aggressive in the face of...

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